Who made the game of soccer?

Answer 1

There is documentary evidence that a game or skill building exercise, involving kicking a ball into a small net, was used by the Chinese military during the Han Dynasty - around the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC. Earlier evidence - of a field marked out to play a ball-kicking game has been found at Kyoto, in Japan. Both the Greeks and ancient Romans played a soccer-type game which resembled modern soccer - although in this early version, teams could consist of up to 27 players! It is impossible to say accurately where and when soccer started - but it is reasonable to assume that some type of ball game - from which the organised sport we know today developed - has been played somewhere on the planet for over 3000 years. In medieval times, towns and villages played against rival towns and villages - and kicking, punching, biting and gouging were allowed. The object of the game was to move the ball to an agreed spot which had been marked out before play commenced. Hundreds of people took part and games could last all day. So violent did these matches become that many attempts were made by the authorities to ban soccer. In England, King Edward III passed laws in 1331 to try and suppress football. In Scotland, King James 1, in 1424, proclaimed in Parliament, "That na man play at the Fute-ball" (No man shall play football/soccer). Good Queen Bess, Queen Elizabeth 1 of England, had a law passed which provided for soccer players to be " jailed for a week, and obliged to do penance in church." But no law could stop the game in Britain. It was too popular.

Answer 2

The man who drafted the 'Laws of the game' for 'Soccer' or 'Association football' was a man called Ebenezer Cobb Morley. Ebenezer, along with other co-authors, agreed the rules at a public house called the Freemasons Tavern in London on 26th October 1863. Morley became the Football Associations first secretary. He also founded the Barnes Football Club in 1862 which he captained against Richmond football club in the first ever soccer match. The game ended 0-0. Ebenezer died in 1924 and is buried at a Cemetery on Barnes Common not far from where he drafted the Laws of the game at 26 The Terrace, Barnes, London. A blue plaque commemorating his life's work was placed on the wall of this address by English Heritage in 2009. The word soccer is a phonetic abbreviation of the word 'Association' coined by English public school students who took the 'soc' from 'Association' and put an 'er' on the end. That is why before 1863 the word soccer did not exist. It is probably worth noting the same students called Rugby football 'Rugger' but this word fell out of use.

Answer 3

The Japanese invented soccer in approximately 1004 B.C. There are traces of games extremely similar to soccer that were played between China and Japan in early times. The Chinese kicked a ball made of animal skins and the goal was made of two poles stuck in the ground. Many believe that the British invented soccer because most of their soccer teams are extremely good at what they do. This is not true though.

Answer

Soccer was not invented it evolved from ball games played in Europe. Medieval foot ball games known to have provided the concepts for Association Football (soccer), Rugby Union Football, American Football, Australian Rules Football, Rugby League Football and Gaelic Athletic Association football include Mob football, Shrove football, La Soule, Gaelic football, Cornish & Welsh Hurling, Irish Hurling and possibly Knattleikr. The people groups who played these games share a common history and culture which included playing foot ball games. There were other games from antiquity played in China, Japan and south America which fit the historical definition of the English word "foteball" meaning "a ball game played on foot". However, there are no connections between these games and those played in Medieval Europe. The first Europeans to play a game which matched the definition of a football game were the Greeks and Romans. In Egypt linen ball bound with catgut for better bounce recovered from Egyptian tombs which date back 4500 years. This creates the distinct possibility that the Greeks may have acquired their football type ball game when Egypt was a Greek territory 3000 years ago.

For practical purposes Mob football, Shrove football and La Soule are the same game played under alternative names. Irish Hurling in played with a bat but other than this a defined area of play, two goals, two teams is similar to Cornish & Welsh Hurling. Gaelic football has shared concepts with hurling and we know Hurling combined with mob football/Shrove football/La Soule after hundreds of years of sports evolution in public schools and Universitys was used as a basis for the early form of Rugby Football played at Rugby Public School.

By the 1750's other forms of football developed from these early games and were being played in almost every public schools England and some in other parts of Britain and Ireland. One major problem which presented itself was that when these schools played against each other they would do so by different rules. To eliminate the confusion in 1848 some of these schools held a meeting to agree a common set of rules. The meeting took place at Cambridge University. Teachers who contributed to these common rules came from Cambridge University, Eton, Harrow, Shrewsbury, Marlborough Westminster and Rugby. The rule they produced became known as the 'Cambridge Rules'. In 1863 a revised version of the 'Cambridge Rules' was published in a London news paper. The rules were read by a man called Ebenezer Cobb Morley who was to become the first secretary of theFootball Association. He was to use these rules as a 'blueprint' to draft the his 'Laws of the game' which, with a few modifications, were agreed by the founder members of the Football Association to become the rules of Association football or Soccer as it became known.

As for other forms of football from the same family of games, we know that the early form of Rugby football was used as a basis for American Football and we know that Gaelic football has common rules with Australian Rules football.

See attachment 'Football' from the Wikipidia encyclopedia website

Answer 4

The English

The 'Laws of the game' for 'Association football' also known as 'Soccer' were wrote by a man called Ebenezer C. Morley on behalf of the newly formed Football Association in 1863. They are based on earlier rules known as the Cambridge Rules written at Cambridge University for their own football team and other schools to use in an attempt to standardise the various football rules played at different educational establishments. The word soccer is a phonetic abbreviation of the word 'Association' coined by English public school students who took the 'soc' from 'Association' and put an 'er' on the end. That is why prior to 1863 the word soccer did not exist. It is probably worth noting the same students called Rugby football 'Rugger' but this word fell out of use.

Answer 5

Every one knows it was soccertese.

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There are many forms of football some of which date back hundreds of years played by numerous rules. Some of these games contributed to modern codes of football played all over the world. Others simply agree with the historical definition of 'foot ball' meaning 'a ball game played on foot' even though they developed independently. The Worlds oldest known ball game that matches the definition of football is an Ancient Greek ball game called "Episkyros" or "Phaininda" which was wrote about by the Greek playwright Antiphanes (388-311 BC). A Greek "Ball Player Relief" on display in the National Museum of Archeology in Athens has been dated to the 4th century BC. Episkyros is recognised by UEFA as being the ancestor of football and for this reason an image of this player balancing a ball on his knee appears on the UEFA European cup and has done since it was first introduced in1960. This game was later adapted by the Romans who created a ball game called "Harpastum" which they introduced to the Roman Province of Britannia (Britain). There is a record of a game being played between the Romans and the Britons in what is now Derbyshire in AD 217. This game may have developed into the medieval ball game played at Shrovetide which in England was called "fote-ball" AD c.1400. Over the next 500 years this Shrovetide game evolved into every form of modern football throughout the English speaking world. However, as the question is specifically about Soccer I can say with absolute certainty that the code of football known as 'Association football' or 'Soccer' was wrote for and behalf of the Football Association founded 1863 by a man called Ebenezer Cobb Morley. The 'Laws of the game' as they became known were based on the earlier Cambridge Rules wrote in 1848. Morley became the Football Associations first secretary. He also founded the Barnes Football Club in 1862 which he captained against Richmond football club in the first ever soccer match. The game ended 0-0 but in a return game he scored the first ever goal. He died in 1924 and is buried at a Cemetery on Barnes Common not far from where he drafted the Laws of the game at 26 The Terrace, Barnes, London. A blue plaque commemorating his life's work was placed on the wall of this address by English Heritage in 2009. The main aim of the Football Association was to standardise the many forms of football played in England. The word Soccer started as a phonetically abbreviated vernacular word for Association football coined by English public school students who took the 'soc' from 'Association' and put an 'er' on the end. Typically 'an Oxford University student who played Association football and Rugby football' would be described as "an Oxforder who plays Soccer and Rugger". This is why prior to 1863 the word Soccer did not exist. It is probably worth noting the same students called Rugby football 'Rugger' but this word has largely fallen out of use.

Answer 6

Football originated in China ~ originally called Cuju, invented in the Song of specific unknown inventor

But when it comes to the origin of modern soccer, which is England

Answer 7

A person with the last name of soccer or something.

Answer 8

Josh Jones